Q. What is HTML?
A: HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is used for creating and visually representing a webpage. HTML adds “markup” to Standard English text. “Hyper Text” refers to links that connect Web pages to one another, making the World Wide Web what it is today. By creating and uploading Web pages to the Internet, you become an active participant in the World Wide Web. HTML supports visual images and other media as well. HTML is the language that describes the structure and the semantic content of a web document. Content within a web page is tagged with HTML elements such as <img>, <title>, <p>, <div>, <picture>, etc.
markup: A set of tags assigned to elements of a text to indicate their relation to the rest of the text or dictate how they should be displayed.
Note:
- HTML is client side scripting language used to design the web page.
- HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language , providing number of controls to design the web page.
- HTML is the case-insensitive language and error less language.
- HTML script execute with the help of web browser.
- Every web browser contains the interpreters to execute the HTML script.
- Every HTML elements we should enclosed with [<>] Engle bracket .
- Every element providing number of property , we can call them as attribute.
- HTML tags are divided into two types: Pair Tag, ii. Non-Pair Tag.
- All pair tag are container, they can hold the other Elements.
- Pair tag are combination of open & closing Tags,
- Ex:
<body><div>Hello World</div></body>
- Non-Pair tags does not contain end tag.
- Ex:
<img src="" alt="" title=""/>,<input type="" />,<br/>,<hr/>,etc
- The extension of HTML document should be .htm or .html .
- DOS support only .htm but all other OS are support .html & .htm.
Prerequisites:
You will need a text editor, such as Notepad and an Internet browser, such as Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, etc.
Q: What is Notepad and where do I get it?
A: Notepad is the default Windows text editor. On most Windows systems, click your Start button and choose Programs then Accessories. It should be a little blue notebook.
Q:What is an html File?
HTML is a format that tells a computer how to display a web page. The documents themselves are plain text files with special “tags” or codes that a web browser uses to interpret and display information on your computer screen.
- HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
- An HTML file is a text file containing small markup tags
- The markup tags tell the Web browser how to display the page
- An HTML file must have an htm or html file extension